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From: jeffm@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jeff Medcalf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: cleaning up /tmp (was Re: files recovery after rm?)
Message-ID: <1989Nov13.041845.10798@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 89 04:18:45 GMT
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Reply-To: jeffm@uokmax.UUCP (Jeff Medcalf)
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I have a number of shell scripts and aliases which I use to preserve what I
remove, unremove things, list what is removed, and clean the trashcan.

On our system, /tmp is used as outlined in the referenced article, and
/var/tmp is the users' temporary space.

Files and directories in /var/tmp which do not begin with a . are removed on
reboots (once every day or two), and files and directories that *do* begin
with a . are subject to removal at any time.  We have no problem with the
/var/tmp directory overflowing, even though several people use directories
of the form /var/tmp/.username


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